Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come: Adele is back. After five long years without a peep from the songstress, she surprised the world Friday by announcing the release date of her third studio album “25,” which is set to drop Nov. 20. Adele’s first promotional single, “Hello,” became available to the public last Friday, accompanied by a music video...
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Faculty quintet to perform: Sunday woodwind recital to feature Barber, Hindemith
A quintet of adjunct professors will carry its audience through three centuries of woodwind music at a 3 p.m. faculty recital Sunday in McNamara Rehearsal Hall. The concert will feature Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 88 No. 2 by 18th-century composer Anton Reicha; Suite, Op. 57 by 19th-century composer Charles-Edouard Lefebvre; “Summer Music,” Op. 31 by 20th-century composer Samuel Barber;...
Alumna poet returns to Hillsdale : Visiting Writer Kjerstin Kauffman ’08 to speak on poetry, the writing experience
When Hillsdale alumna Kjerstin Ostlind was a senior in 2008, she wrote two theses — one, a typical thesis on a Roman poet. Her second, a compilation of her original poems. The combination of these two aspects of her undergraduate career have led Kjerstin Ostlind ’08, now Kjerstin Kauffman, to her work in poetry today. “I never did get...
In review: ‘Pan’ — ‘Peter Pan’ retelling ‘will leave viewers scratching their heads’
Joe Wright’s “Pan” is a bombastic blend of borrowed ideas, superfluous pop culture references, and colorful interpretations that never cohere. There are plenty of good ideas on display, but most of them fail because they pop in and out of the film with no development or sense of importance. And it doesn’t help that most of those ideas find better...
